The fastest, most positive advances in computer software, as hindered
by the selfish warring between the many proprietary computer software
vendors, have all been centered around a piece of Free software or a
royalty-free open standard, or better still: both. These key bits of
lagniappe have created the fertile ground on which your avaricious
patent efforts stand.
RAND-like licensing has no place in any standards organization
governing computer software, where a traditional-duration patent is
like an aeon to more mature, slower moving industries.
If some portion of web standards becomes royalty-tainted, I will
fervently support a free software schism. But I would of course
prefer it if the patent lovers who seek to create a strangle-hold on
"open" standards would not force my hand.
Thank you for reading.
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Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS